China Mobile to Begin iPhone Pre-Orders on December 12

[Apple Corps]

Seriously, how much does the average chinese worker make?

Seriously, how much do you really know about China, Asia or other parts of the world and different cultures?

Perhaps you have spent too much time living under a rock somewhere. Your post i#11 s one of the most ill informed, negative rants I have read in recent memory.

You really need to think about all that terrible bile you have built up inside of yourself.

 

[macs4nw]

My friend, you have been duped into believing that everyone in China lives a miserable life and that the majority of the people live under awful conditions. You probably also believe the same thing about Africa, with added words like "starving" and "disease".

The truth is, there are people thriving everywhere across the world and there are people who are not thriving everywhere across the world. China is not as under-developed and poor and rural and miserable as the media would perhaps like you to believe.

The Chinese economy is indeed growing at an incredible rate. I read somewhere a while back that each and every day 8000-9000 new cars come on the road; not replacement vehicles, new and additional cars. There is definitely a sizeable segment of the population that has disposable income, and that segment is growing rapidly.

 

[freedumbfighter]

Those tacky-colored phones with tacky-colored icons and screens are PERFECT for the chinese taste. But, they would have to get used to the lack to toxic chemicals and forced labor that went to make them. Except for the 5S, thank you Apple for selling crap back to china. :roll eyes:

Wow, you are a racist piece of garbage!

Seriously, you are a waste of human egg & sperm. Please do NOT have offspring.

 

[freedumbfighter]

Most China Mobile subscribers who want an iPhone already have one. Unlike the US, the Chinese by their phones outright with no contract.

This silliness is the latest ignorant piece of FUD floating around out there.
No.
Just no.
You fail at technology understanding. Completely. Their network only JUST got TDE-LTE. iPhone 5S & 5C became the FIRST PHONES ON THE PLANET to support their new technology.
If you don't think much faster internet is enticing to consumers, feel free to google early 2000s broadband adoption rates..... or you know, just ask ANYBODY or use common sense.
All the people who (according to you) "already have one" on China Mobile, prior to now, could have:
1)iPhone 3G- slow & dated, with slow net
2)iPhone 3GS- slow & dated, with slow net
3)iPhone 4- sluggish with iOS 7, with slow net
4)iPhone 4S- speedy enough, too bad the slow net will keep them from using its banner feature, Siri
5)iPhone 5- spent a ton to buy outright....? Bummer that this phone supports blazing fast 4G on EVERY network in the world but yours. Must suck being held back by that slow net.
(I hope by now you are sensing a pattern!!!!!)
Their options now:
1)iPhone 5C- fast, new, faster mobile internet than they've ever had
2)iPhone 5S- most premier phone currently manufactured.. silly speedy, coupled with newly available 4G!

Your ridiculous statement is either claiming that:
1)nobody cares about 4G in China, somehow it is the one market in the world not excited by this & it will not affect anybody's buying decisions
or....
2)even though the new iPhones are selling briskly worldwide.... & have nowhere NEAR completed their sales cycle.. or even sales cycle half-life... in China EVERY single last one of China Mobile's customers that wanted one- already got their hands on one

Both equally preposterous.
I'm caling you out & anybody else that tries to drag out this foolish claim and bandy it about...

 

[kindadukish]

this might be the most helpful and informed post in macrumors recent history. its funny how some choose to post speculation based on political agendas and others are willing to explain things with a rational, fact based demeanor. i like how perfectly this post puts to shame the bitterness of some of the others in this thread.

Haha, thanks. I was thinking about it and I even have some friends in China who have two phones. Their original China Mobile phone, which they use for phone calls, and an iPhone on China Unicom which they use as an iPod touch with a SIM card, basically. Among Chinese yuppies, you'd be surprised how many people like this there are. Those people will now all buy a new iPhone 5 for China Mobile, allowing them to keep their original phone number, though I imagine those purchases will be spread out over the next several months rather than in one big immediate wave.

Anyway, this reminds me of the old days of the original iPod, which was technically Mac only, but you could buy 3rd party software to make it talk to Windows. So at the time you could have said "the iPod already works with Windows", but of course when Apple came out with an official solution for Windows (originally it was through a piece of software called MusicMatch Jukebox -- there was no iTunes for Windows yet, imagine that!) they reached tens of millions of new customers. Most people want to do things the official way (most people are in fact too busy in their day jobs to spend time on boards like this figuring out workarounds ) so it's no surprise that market is much bigger.

Anybody who thinks China is poor hasn't been to China. It's like saying America is all wheatfields. True only with limits and big qualifications.

Let me put it a little more specifically. Most people from the US who go to China for the first time are surprised -- shocked in fact -- to find that the big cities (Beijing, Shanghai, and a number of others) are basically at first-world level with some aspects seeming ahead of the first world (gorgeous new airports, bullet trains). You don't have to get too far outside those big cities though to find that the rural areas are extremely poor. But remember that the Chinese middle class is now bigger than the whole population of the US (I think I read that somewhere).